Posts in Breakfast Of Champions

Mighty in San Francisco Address: 119 Utah St Main entrance will be on Alameda Street and San Bruno Avenue $25 advance/$30 day of event – 21+ with valid ID Breakfast of Champions will be returning to Utah Street & Mighty again in 2015! As always there will be an all-star DJ line-up playing from 6 AM until you cry “uncle” in four different areas of sound. All of your favorite Space Cowboy DJs, Friends, and Special Guests! - TWO Tented outdoor…

Not many authors -especially well-respected authors- write meta-fiction, fiction that uses literary techniques to draw attention to itself as a work of art. Vonnegut has changed this with his works Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions, in which he appears as a character in both, inextricably linking these novels together. “And I sat there in the cocktail lounge of the new Holiday Inn, watching Dwayne Hoover stare into the bosom of the shirt…

It seems incredibly melodramatic to say that a book has changed my life. It’s the kind of statement that, coming from the mouth of someone else, would make me roll my eyes and say something sarcastic like, “Please tell me more about your spiritual journey, bro.” Yet just the same, Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece, really did change my life. It’s the story of one of Vonnegut’s more famous characters, science fiction author Kilgore Trout, and the car salesmen…

Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut There are a hell of alot of interesting things going on in Breakfast of Champions : a distinctive authorial style that challenges fictional conventions, insightful social commentary, and an exploration of the relationship between fiction and determinism. But because all these ideas are held together by a weak plot, the whole ends up being less than the parts. The plot revolves around a science fiction writer…